Sentence examples for being too gracious from inspiring English sources

All those years spent being told to comb Barbie's hair rather than play rough and tumble with the boys have made many of us overly mindful of our own affability – but now we've got proof that being  too gracious is costing us cold hard  cash, perhaps we  can peel the fake smiles off our faces and get self-interested for a change.

I'm poz undetectable," I explained, perhaps being too gracious.

"Berwanger was too gracious to say anything," Rasley recalled.

If he resents being cast as McIlroy's keeper, McDowell is too gracious to show it.

If Mr. Pépin was appalled, he was too gracious to show it.

Aaron is too gracious, too modest and too much of a gentleman to undercut a player like Bonds.

Although Dr. Taussig was too gracious to criticize the portrait, that did not mean she liked it.

And Fieldin had been too gracious or arrogant or both to explain it to her, or to anyone else.

He is too gracious to add that rich countries, which bear the lion's share of responsibility for climate change, should be ashamed that his, which bears almost none, is doing relatively more to fight it than they are.

Ranieri is too gracious a character, it seems, to speak ill of anybody and he told an Italian TV reporter on Friday that he had "no wish for revenge" over Chelsea.

And yet, Mr. Ball and Ms. Staunton saw various technical glitches and missed cues off with aplomb and were too gracious to indicate the near certainty with which they will be in attendance at next year's Oliviers — not as presenters, one assumes, but as joint winners both.